Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Genius: The Con by Leopoldo Gout.
Three brilliant teens from around the world must work together to stop a vicious warlord, protect their families, and save the world in this fast-paced sequel to Genius: The Game.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Doubleday, publishers of The Clockwork Dynasty, the new novel by Daniel Wilson.
An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by IMPOSSIBLE VIEWS OF THE WORLD by Lucy Ives, published by Penguin Press.
Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan’s renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance with “a fascinating, hyper-rational narcissist” is in freefall, and a beloved colleague, Paul, has gone missing. Pulsing with neurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirties with your brain and heart intact.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Keeping the Beat by Marie Powell and Jeff Norton from KCP Loft.
Fame. Love. Friends. Pick any two.
It was supposed to be the best summer of her life. Instead, seventeen-year-old Lucy finds her best friend, Harper, shot dead in an LA swimming pool. How did things go so wrong? Their band, Crush, was once the top prospect to win an international talent contest. But things fell apart when Lucy discovered Harper’s real reasons for starting a band — which had nothing to do with music. Now, her other bandmates are throwing themselves into sex, drugs and rock and roll. Can Lucy get the rest of the girls to play to her beat?
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Zenn Diagram by Wendy Brant from KCP Loft.
Being a math genius is not exactly a ticket to popularity for seventeen-year-old Eva. Even worse, whenever she touches another person or their belongings, she gets glimpses of their emotions, secrets and insecurities, making her keep her distance from everyone. So when Eva realizes she can touch Zenn, a handsome and soulful artist, without getting visions — only sparks — she nds herself drawing closer to him. But then she discovers the history that links them, and the truth threatens to tear the two apart.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Blackstone Publishing – publisher of the Hell Divers Trilogy by Nicholas Sansbury Smith.
USA Today bestselling science fiction author Nicholas Sansbury Smith delivers another heart-pounding post-apocalyptic adventure in Hell Divers II: Ghosts, the second book in the award-winning Hell Divers trilogy (out July 18th). Bombs dropped during World War III poisoned our the earth. What remains of humankind exists on a massive flying warship. Hell Divers, specially trained men and women, risk their lives to make the dive down to monster-infested, radioactive earth to retrieve fuel cells to keep the ship afloat. They Dive So Humanity Survives!
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Mourning Parade by Dawn Reno Langley.
Natalie DeAngelo lost everything the day her two sons were killed in a school shooting. Desperate to move on, she volunteers as a veterinarian on an elephant sanctuary in Thailand. Despite her nightmares and a vindictive colleague, Natalie must find a way to heal an angry, injured elephant, Sophie. The pair attempt to heal together and find ways to enjoy life again.
This deeply emotional novel explores the capacity of a mother’s love, the challenge of overcoming a devastating loss, and the long, tiresome journey to healing.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Special Ones by Em Bailey, a HMH Book for Young Readers.
Esther is one of four Special Ones: spiritual guides who live in a remote farmhouse under the protection of a mysterious cult leader. He watches them around the clock—ready to punish them if they forget who they are—while broadcasting their lives to eager followers outside.
Esther knows that if she stops being Special, he will “renew” her. Nobody knows what happens to Special Ones who are taken away for renewal, but Esther fears the worst. Like an actor caught up in an endless play, she must keep up the performance if she wants to survive long enough to escape.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy, a HMH Book for Young Readers.
Every seven years something disappears in the town of Sterling: reflections…dreams…colors. When Aila arrives, she learns the town is cursed to lose experiences that weave life together…and the theory is that Aila’s deceased mother, Juliet, is to blame.
Aila sets out to clear her mother’s name with the help of George, whose goofy charm makes him a fast friend; Beas, the enigmatic violinist who writes poetry on her knees; and William, whose pull on Aila’s heart terrifies her.
The Disappearances is a bewitching tale full of intrigue and dread that will leave you entranced.
Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Final Girls by Riley Sager.
Ten years ago, Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of what the pressed dubbed the Final Girls, a group of similar survivors. Now, Quincy is doing well, thanks to her Xanax prescription, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy’s doorstep. And when new details about Lisa’s death come to light, Quincy must unravel Sam’s truths from her lies, and remember what really happened ten years ago.